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In 2018 the Tuscan lighting firm Martinelli Luce celebrates the fiftieth birthday of the Cobra table lamp designed by Elio Martinelli, who in 1968 founded the company that is today headed, with dynamic energy and contagious enthusiasm by his daughter Emiliana. To mark this important anniversary, designers who work with the firm were asked to produce reworked versions of the Cobra, to figure in an exhibition trail that started on 27 February at the Milan Triennale: the new editions of the Cobra lamp were displayed at a press conference there and are to be produced in 30 numbered and signed copies plus three trial pieces. The exhibition will conclude with a large display again at the Triennale, during the 2018 Salone del Mobile, telling the story of this Lucca company. The anniversary is also an occasion to present another of the company’s icons, the Pipistrello table lamp designed by Gae Aulenti in 1965, in a portable, mini version – cordless, dimmable, with rechargeable battery and touch sensor.

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